in the last five years, when most of the countries in europe experienced a fiscal volatility of the great recession, germany has had a relatively low and steady unemployment rate and the german economy was the engine for recovery in europe. oureed to be aggressive in talent strategy up we are going to win the battle. interviewed we said am "i'm spending hundreds of dollars on workforce develop and and i don't know what the hell i'm getting." that is as direct as you can be. that is the right talents. we need specific challenges that deliver clear outcomes and that has to be our northstar. where can we start? we identified four strategies that we think governors can deploy now and win the battle for talent. it's about four things. pathways, pipeline, and focus. -- this is about real-time information and insights into supply and demand of talent. i'm not talking about jobs data. we have lots of data on jobs. little information on talent. let's start with a job, a welder. in virginia, over the last year, there were 1100 jobs posted to hire welders as defined by the standard job classificatio